Proof of Global Warming

It's a Black Thing. You Wouldn't Understand.

Remember that? I always wondered how much fun it was to attribute some life experience as unknowable to another and ascribe their exclusion to an insurmountable arbitrary factor. Well, I finally found out.... It's a lot of fun.

Friend O Mine: How do you know all this? I mean, is there some place where they teach this stuff? (emergency wiring) What are you? A rural electrical something or other?

JACIII: I'm a redneck.

I delivered this line deadpan and in a manner consistent with delivering the news, "Water is wet", and noted Friend O Mine's only disappointingly mild frustration with the unforthcoming nature of the answer.

Happily, my efforts were rewarded later in the day when the same question was posed and the same answer given. This has been a source of much joy.

Assignment for those who dare:

Try it. Next time someone remarks upon your ability to do X or knowledge of Y, feel free to attribute it to your cultural demographic.

Man Up! Seperating the Wheat from the Chaff.

Hey Y'all!

As you can see by the picture below, it is still a frozen world. From where I'm sitting, in front of the wood stove with a generator and furnace purring in the background it's not so bad. Some folks have had a struggle seeking to master the elements without the aid of municipal utility services, and still others are useless as tits on a boar hog and have become beggers after everyone elses time and resources.

I will relate two examples.

Mr. M moved out here a couple years ago and is a highly intelligent bookish sort of substantial academic acheivement and credentials who owns, breeds and cares for livestock. He has been gradually educating himself in the ways of self-sufficiency and aquiring knowledge and skills through the effective method getting his hands dirty and practicing good relations with the natives.
Folks hereabouts, and I suspect thereabouts, will go out of their way to help this kind of fella out. I'll do what I can for him.

Ms Spongebroad (not her real name) is a modern female who gives the impression she is capable, able, and independent. Observable reality reveals another tale. Begger. Unwilling to even run the roads or work the phone to locate items whose possession could literally mean survival. Things are scarce right now, but you can drive to where they are in a reasonable amount of time. Spongebroad is sitting in front of a heater I loaned out to an elderly couple with 'total electric' and no alternative heat source or way to get one with her three kids dumped in the old folks parlor.

Mr M. Was unable to get out of his property to run the roads for two days and I could not bring him a heat source (total electric home) because Spongebroad, who is able bodied, would not contribute through effort or time to the wellbeing of the elderly couple on whom she imposes. I ever see Spongebroad drowning, I will count the bubbles.

JACIII

JACIII

Greetings from the frozen Bluegrass

After two days of rain @ 30 degrees F and tree limbs cracking like lightning strikes we finally lost power around 4am this morning. I really could not have imagined it taking <I>this</I> long. Alas, mother nature finally got around to us.

The trusty Englander wood stove is sitting at a steady 1500 degrees F internal and the old house is basking in its glow. As it turns out, 93 years ago they built houses for this particular mode of climate control.

Barring the power coming back on in the next hou or so, I will have to run the cable from the motorhome generator to cycle the fridge, freezer,and hot water heater.

As the sun comes up I will try to post some pics. This weather is extremely destructive, but also extremely pleasing to the eye. This is. No doubt why nature is charecterized as female.

This blog posted by Treo.

JACIII

Somebody has Been Watching Way too Much Star Trek

Beelzebub 1/27/09 6:14 AM




It's just obvious to anyone who knows enough about human nature that we are not perfect beings. IMO we will never evolve into perfect beings, but since I'm a bit of a transhumanist (not a crazy transhumanist, but a little bit of one) I don't think we will need to. Within a few hudred years we will have the capacity to engineer ourselves beyond human fault and foible. That will include tolerance for those wanting to be "left behind" but in truth, I don't think anyone will want to be.

The preceding was lifted from the comments by Breezebetweentheearslebub over at Vox's blog. Breezebetweentheearslebub has neglected to mention human improvement has been ongoing apace for many years already and certainly in modern times. The USSR had re-education camps whereby impure thoughts were eradicated from the minds of pre-enlightened throwbacks, and our own modern pharmaceutical industry has been plugging away at curing the ills of even boys who tend to be active, and hasn't civil authority made certain thoughts a crime? I can tell we are just around the corner from Breezebetweentheearslebub's New HopeChange Utopia. Everything has changed!

In Breezebetweentheearslebub's New HopeChange Utopia folks won't be killed for their own good like those old Pre-HopeChange Utopias. No, It will be done for the Good of All or to Save the Planet.

New Blog Tip

A friend of mine, who is a terminal hippy, but a good writer and a smart fella in spite of that has started putting pen to paper to give laymen the lay of the land on horseracing from an "inside the biz" perspective.

Play nice if you visit. And go easy on him while he visualizes world peace.....


Bloodhorse in the Bluegrass


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Something you should know....

There are a couple of theories about the origin of this display, though it's meaning is pretty much an accepted fact. My favorite is the following, but I can see how a longer history would not conflict with the following account.

Origin of The Finger

(This may or may not be true but it is told repeatedly....so here you go)

In 1415, Henry the V took his army of around 6,000 men across the English Channel and into southern France. After cutting trees and preparing large pointed sticks, Henry marched his army northwest for 17 days and over 270 miles. With only one day's rest, the mighty force was haggard and exhausted by the time they reached the flat land between the forest of Agincourt.

The French army, consisting of 25,000 troops, 15,000 of which were mounted knights in armor, arrived on the evening of October 24. Their army was a mishmash of Frenchmen from all over the feudal country. It rained hard that night, and both armies were soaked to the bone my morning. Most French knights slept in the saddle so as not to sully their expensive and ornate armor.

On the morning of October 25, the French and British armies were salty and ready to fight. Henry moved his troops slowly up the 1/2 mile wide passage between the two forests of Agincourt. By 11 Am, the French commanders were still bickering over tactics and whether or not to charge all the while the British were within 400 yards of the French.

Now what made the battle of Agincourt so interesting was the introduction of the Welsh long bow. This weapon could dismount a rider at 300 yards and with top notch arrows, could pierce armor at close range.

The French King had heard of the longbow and smugly claimed that when the fight was over, he would cut the bow finger from every Englishman in France. As the long bow was made from the yew tree, it took great strength to draw the bow back and without the middle finger, this would be impossible.

When Henry had his troops within bowshot of the French, he loosed the first of many volleys of arrows. The French, caught off guard, charged with half their forces. The Duke of Orleans barely made it 200 yards before his knights broke and ran under a hail of deadly wood and steel. Many of the knights sank into the mud and were trampled as the horses and frightened soldiers pummeled them into a fine paste.

Those knights that did make it to the British front lines were let upon by unarmored soldiers carrying short swords, who plunged their blades into the joints of the French armor. All this came after a great number of horses were impaled upon the huge pointed sticks the British had placed in the ground in front of them.

At the end of the day, the French had lost some 10,000 men, and the British mourned only 500 dead. In one day, the Hundred Years War had turned and the long bow had successfully defeated the myth of the invincible knight in armor.

The French nobility stood horrified on a hill over looking the battle when the Englishmen in mass turned to face them, middle finger held high for the French to see.

Shakespeare went on to glorify this battle, and the French, to vilify it. For the next 100 years, every lad over the age of 6 in Britain was required to be instructed in the firing and maintaining of the long bow.

In response to this, the French began cutting off the index and middle fingers of all British men caught in battle or on French land, thus removing the digits that allowed the firing of a bow. This is where the British tradition of waving two fingers at someone as an insult arose. And, the very American middle fingered salute or "the bird," is a descendant of this. As the feathers on the arrow were made of pheasant feathers, the saying “Giving the bird” soon arose.

As the Brothers C are of Greek descent (yes, our ancestors were formulating representative democracy whilst yours were buggering their mothers, eating each other, and living in caves) this account also has a certain appeal, though as a redneck I have to say I prefer the former but will accept the combination of the two. Ignore the Freudian bullshit:

Giving someone "the finger" is one of the basest violations in modern culture, but its origins date back over 2500 years. The first written record of the insult occurred in ancient Greece, where the playwright Aristophanes (the Adam Sandler of his day) made a crude joke mixing up the middle finger and the penis. Even back then, the bird was considered an aggressive, phallic put-down.

It has been argued by anthropologists that the finger is a a variant of a classic "phallic aggressive" gesture used by primates. By jabbing a threatening phallus at your enemy like a wild animal, you aren't just belittling him, but also making him your sexual inferior. Instead of using a real penis, civilized Janes and Platos called upon the substitute wieners within their own hands to mock, threaten, and humiliate opponents.

And boy, did it. When the Romans imported the art, music, and culture of the Greeks, the finger came along, too. Roman Emperor Caligula, a pioneer in perversity, frequently shocked his citizens by forcing them to kiss his middle finger instead of his hand. One of his subjects, Cassius, who Caligula often taunted as being too effeminate, finally had enough humiliation and assassinated him. Clearly, the bird was not to be taken lightly.

The Rubber Meets the Road

Dick Morris is always close if not spot on with reporting of the true intentions and results of the calculated and cynical machinations of our political leaders. Obama's intended demographic shift will make the US just another Euro-trash collection of bums dependent upon the government teet for all our needs.

And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, will now grow to a clear majority of the American population.

Next comes the back-door implementation of the leftist wonder drug; !Euthanasia!, through the overburdening of our healthcare system.

Without a lot more doctors, nurses, clinics, equipment and hospital beds, health resources will be strained to the breaking point. The people and equipment that now serve 250 million Americans and largely neglect all but the emergency needs of the other 50 million will now have to serve everyone. And, as government imposes ever more Draconian price controls and income limits on doctors, the supply of practitioners and equipment will decline as the demand escalates. Price increases will be out of the question, so the government will impose healthcare rationing, denying the older and sicker among us the care they need and even barring them from paying for it themselves. (Rationing based on income and price will be seen as immoral.)

Mr Morris has been a voice in the wilderness of the mainstream media of late and you would do well to heed this insider's knowledge and insight.

Harley Bashing Fest

This vid is in a post below, but it deserves it's own space as it is one of my all time faves.




True story:
Pulled into gas station on GS. A kid (late 20's - early 30's) with a newer Sportster is fueling up on the other side of the fuel island and steps around looking at the GS.

kid "Nice bike."
GS "Thanks!"
kid "Couldn't afford a Harley?"
GS "I can afford any bike I want."
kid "Then why didn't you get a Harley?"
GS "Because I wanted a bike that would start everyday and get me where I want to go."
kid "My bike starts everyday!"
GS "Then why are you riding your sisters?"

Dude's a Hoss !

This is NOT a light motorcycle. 402 honest pounds. Dayum.

Harley Rally or Gay Parade? Is it Still Harley Bashing if it's True?

Lawyer on a Harley. It's almost too easy.
No, I haven't searched through hundreds of pics to glean these few Harley riders in flagrant display of their native sexuality. These are just typical cruiser boys out enjoying themselves as normal.



This one is from an actual H.O.G. website

Exxon Mobil CEO Suffers From Mental Handicap

He's a moron.

"As a businessman, it's hard to speak favourably about any new tax, but a carbon tax strikes me as a more direct, more transparent and more effective approach," Rex Tillerson, CEO of the Irving, Texas based company, said Thursday at the Woodrow Wilson international center for scholars in Washington.

At a Dec. 11 event in Chicago, Tillerson, 56, said he preferred a carbon tax to carbon trading programs such as the type used in Europe.

I don't know about you, but my Suburban will roll right by every Exxon station without even lifting off the accelerator.

Here's a thought: Those of us who drive vehicles that emit large quantiies of "green house gas" (strangely enough due to the consumption of large quantities of Exxon main product) purchase our petroleum elsewhere. We could all burn Shell or BP while the greenies in their death trap disposable micro-cars patronize Exxon. It wouldn't take long for the Rockefellers to fire the Tinman and hire a CEO with a brain.

Pure Fucking Gold

I note Vox has taken a much more hands-on approach discouraging thread stealing, cocoment bashing, and off topic comments.

The following "somehow" managed to escape unedited by everyone's favorite umbrella drink connoisseur......

Spacebunny			1/8/09 11:49 AM
VD: 1/8/09 11:03 AM: Do learn how to link, folks. It's not hard and it's easier for people to see what you want them to read. Bite me. If cocomment was worth it's weight it would make those cut and paste links clickable. I mean seriously, even haloscan has figured out how to do this.

For some reason I can't read that without hearing a voice-over of "Bubbles" from the Power Puff Girls.

One of Many Reasons Bugs are so Cool

They fit into a 10 x 10 barn stall!


Now what?



Four bolts, four wires, one throttle cable, a motorcycle jack, and 10 minutes later...



Looks like somebody forgot to clearance the bell housing......



That would have to be one wobbly crankshaft otherwise.

And so it begins

``Ho Ho Ho! Death to the surveillance state! Free movement for all people!''

The group that posted the video also wrote ``lumps of coal to all of those who make it their business to watch and control.''




Soon these will be identified as "Domestic Terrorists" attempting to do damage to civic institutions by interrupting their revenue streams

News Flash! The Clintons have been Taking Bribes

Duh!

I love how this gets reported as news since the old windbag finally came clean on the "donors" for his "library". No one with even half a brain ever doubted this was going on. As much as the American populace is exposed to these two shakedown artists, you'd think even the MSM would have gotten the message long ago.

Kinda makes me wonder, though, if maybe the fact of hubby's shady dealing's weren't being held over the Lizard Queen's head to keep her in line during the ascendancy of the Magic Negro. Or if perhaps this being widely reported doesn't serve to move the spotlight off said Magic Negro during his recent brush with civic misbehavior.

Further Evidence Harley Owners Don't Know Shit About Motorcycles

Props to Bill Denton of the GPzList and Amazon.com :

144 pages to explain to the moorons to drain oil, remove filter, replace filter, replace drain plug, refill with oil. Here's a review:

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Don't buy, August 22, 2007 By M.Mac (Prospect, KY USA) - See all my reviews Change the Oil is not going to win any book awards. It was disappointing. Very poorly organized with random points made through out and other points repeated multiple times. The information could have been conveyed in about 10 well written pages. It could have used a proof reader. There were many misspellings, missing words, etc. Photos were of a very poor quality. I really don't know whether I should trust the information. I recommend you find another source for the information

Of course M.Mac knows highly technical stuff like this is best left to the rocket scientists at the Hardly Dealer. They can do this stuff with one hand behind their back diggin' in their exposed ass-crack.

Yes!, I do consider you a lowly bar hopping idiot barely capable of remembering to inhale regularly without prompting if you are incapable of performing this basic maintenance procedure on your own bike for this simple reason: a rider will find himself in the middle of a ride when an oil change comes due. Of course, a Hardly rider can just keep pourin' fresh oil in to replace what leaks out and is burned by his POSHOG thereby having an effectively continous oil change.

UPDATE: !Note to readers! - disregard any mechanical advice posted under the reviews. It's just my old GPz homies playin' around tryin' to help a Hardly to the junkpile. This means you, MM.

UPDATE II (They just can't help themselves...) :

Come on bro. $35.00 to learn how to change your oil on a motorcycle where both the drain plug and fill plug are in easy sight? I think that's worthy of a little ridicule. Of course, $35.00 isn't bad when you have to pay $15.00 a quart for the genuine Harley-Davidson Motor Oil. You need a very special oil to keep that cutting edge technology lubed and in tip top shape.
I have a Harley rider/friend who still uses straight 50w in cool weather and
actually uses 90w gear lube in the crankcase when it gets hot out. Keeps it
from leaking out as fast. He also carries a drip cup to catch the oil that
leaks out and pours it back in the bike before he starts it up. (I'm not
joking)
Dave B

Obama! Recommended by 9 Out of 10 Inmates!

Draw your own conclusions.

See more interesting mug shots here.

Cooling Trend Proves Global Warming!

That fact that it is getting cooler actually means it is getting warmer...... It takes a scientist or a socialist to actually cook up this shit.


Come on now. You new the greenies were gonna say this nonsensical bullshit as a last gasp. They are in a frenzy because they know the time is about up for a big power grab to start us back toward grass huts and shittin' in a hole. The Black Jimmy Carter - I see The Misery Index on the horizon!

Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.